litphoria

A character whose hair is pink.

I am not happy with the concept of any hair color that is not 'average' falling under the unnatural category. I think that other people, when I voiced my opinions on this, said that they would prefer to have many options, and have them all be searchable, rather than having limited choices. If this color is voted on and then used, it feels to me like it should be allowed. Either that or I fall back on my previous suggestion of having no hair colors that are searchable, but having a place to enter those by hand.

I don't mind having ~20 categories to a trait as long as that trait contains some categories that would be searched.

From here. I feel like we either need allow any category which is suggested, no matter how many there are, or we need a uniform wait to treat traits that would get bogged down with too many categories which does not include tossing mass numbers of people into 'not the norm'.

We definitely cannot just automatically accept every category, as there are hundreds of potential species, and that loses the value in searching if there's too many.

With the categorization, we must consider that grouping things that are not exactly that together can improve searching rather than hinder it. For example, it is possible to find all dogs, all cats, all humans, and all near-humans here. If the categories for species were more fine, we would not be able to do this, and searching would certainly suffer as a consequence. Not to mention things like preferences.

Alright. I can see where that is true for species. Many of them fall under large groups. On the other hand, while I could see neon and rose pink going into the same section it is much harder to imagine pink and blue going into the same heading. And I will be honest, just because my character has dark blue hair and that is his norm, does not mean that he would be okay with someone who had bright green, or purple polka dotted hair. Can we not at least cover the spectrum of ten or so colors (6 from the rainbow then brown, black, white and hey even pink and cyan?)

We may want to separate red and ginger, with orange falling under ginger and red covering everything from the 'natural' red to the more intense crimsons that are not overly uncommon. That said, I think that your suggested spectrum is reasonable otherwise. I do not think that we should separate neon pink and rose pink, but having a pink category (and obviously blue for my own character's sake) would be nicer than the broad umbrella.

Nobody's going to add shades of existing colors. Or rather, we are unlikely to go there. Let's not engage with that slippery slope.

Pink, green and blue are the most common unnatural hair colours I've seen, and are extraordinarily popular alternate hair colours in Eastern fiction. I'd be happy to see those added.

The only extra remaining is purple, and then we've covered all the main colours. Beyond that there's just shades, and we don't need shades. Job done, no slope to fret about.

Or to put my comment on that slippery slope differently: show me someone who asks for periwinkle and I'll show you a community who will say "no thanks, please pick blue or purple".

Red= auburn/natural red to crimson
Orange= maybe for pumpkin orange hair?
Blond= yellow can fall under this as well
Green= is a common 'alt' color
Blue= same for green
Purple= just to get the full spectrum
Pink= because it really is different from red
Brown/ Brunette= a classic
Black= obviously
White= easy enough
Multi Color= Maybe? to cover rainbow hair jobs?

That seems like a decently reasonable list to me. Periwinkle can fall under blue or purple, maroon can fall under red or brown and so on. Neon pink is still pink and midnight blue is still blue.

Orange hair is red hair though. Since people will use red for red and red for orange and orange for redhead (which is what red is for), we might as well just keep both under 'red'.

Other than that I find that list reasonable and pretty comprehensive, Yasu.